Baby Theft!
You know what sucks? When you and your wife swap out infant car seats between the two cars, and somebody decides to steal the car seat from you. From your driveway. In the middle of the day. And the diaper bag that was sitting on top of it.
I was along with Josiah, and no car seat, and 45 miles away from a gig that I was already running late for. I drove to our local Target to buy a replacement, with Josiah just strapped into the regular seat belt. The whole way there (3 minutes) he had this wide-eyed look on his face, like he knew we were totally doing something illegal, but also that this was an big-boy awesome adventure.
Eric, 
Nick 1:56 pm on 20 July 2009 Permalink
Wow, that’s just low. I hope you had a dirty diaper in there or something.
Christy Semsen 7:29 pm on 20 July 2009 Permalink
OUCH! Where do you live? :) Best thing we ever did was stock both cars with seats for both kids…
Gretchen 8:11 pm on 20 July 2009 Permalink
In good ol’ Monrovia! And in a great neighborhood. Our neighbor across the street was having a yard sale, so I wonder if the amount of traffic had something to do with it.
Eric 7:34 am on 28 July 2009 Permalink
Well, Gretchen, obviously your neighbor accidentally sold the car-seat.
My car was stolen (in our quiet Boston neighborhood) from in front of our house during the 45 minutes between when my wife left for work and I went outside to take our daughter to school. You have to admit, it takes – something – to just walk up and take a car-seat, car, whatever.
michael 8:45 am on 28 July 2009 Permalink
I should note that the neighbor lives across the street, down two houses, and our yards are on opposite sides (we live on a corner). The only way he could have accidentally sold it is if he sees the world in some bizarre non-euclidean geometric plane where our yard is a continuation of his.
Actually, knowing this guy, that might be true!